Scott v. Henrich’s Empirical Analysis
39 F.3d 912 · 1994
Citation profile
101 federal appellate · 42 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 320 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Estate of Smith v. Marasco (2003), Smith v. City of Hemet (2005)
101 federal appellate · 42 district · 11 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Graham v. Connor · City of Canton v. Harris · Tennessee v. Garner
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 320 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he court may not simply accept what may be a self- serving account by the officer. It must also look at the circumstantial evidence that, if believed, would tend to discredit the police officer's story, and consider whether this evidence could convince a rational fact finder that the officer acted unreasonably.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“significant threat of death or serious physical injury”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Macias · Abraham v. Raso“the calculus of reasonableness must embody allowance for the fact that police officers are often forced to make split-second judgments--in circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving--about the amount of force that is necessary in a particular situation.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.